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Is Ollie's Kitchen Pumpkin Gnocchi ultra-processed?

500g Cereals and their products Sold in Australia

Pack of Ollie's Kitchen Pumpkin Gnocchi

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed cereals and their products

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

potatoes 70% (water, dehydrated potato flakes), wheat flour, potato starch, pumpkin 3%, rice flour, salt, acidity reguiator (lactic acid), preservative (sorbic acid), natural flavour

Additives: E200 Sorbic acid , E270 Lactic acid

As written on the pack

Rehydrated potatoes 70% (water, dehydrated potato flakes), wheat flour, potato starch, pumpkin 3%, rice flour, salt, acidity reguiator: lactic acid, preservative: sorbic acid, natural flavour. ALLERGY ADVICE: Contains gluten. May contain traces of soy.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 5,066 cereals and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2945th. 57% of the cereals and their products here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 5,066 cereals and their products, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9343317000976, last edited 7 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.